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Sinéad O'Callaghan
Sinéad ( , ) is an Irish feminine name. It is derived from the French ''Jeanette'', which is cognate to the English Janet, itself a feminine form of the Hebrew ''Yohannan'', "God forgave/God gratified". In English, ''Sinéad'' is also commonly spelled ''Sinead''. The name is generally translated into English as either ''Jane'' or ''Jennifer'', or as the Scottish female name ''Jean''. Notable people and characters with the name include: People Sports * Sinéad Cahalan, camogie player * Sinead Farrelly (born 1989), American soccer player * Sinead Jennings, rower * Sinead Kerr, ice dancer * Sinéad Millea, former camogie player * Sinead Miller, cyclist * Sinead Russell, Olympic swimmer Music * Sinead Harnett, singer/songwriter * Sinéad Lohan, singer/songwriter * Sinéad Madden, singer/songwriter * Sinéad Mulvey, singer, air hostess * Sinéad O'Carroll, singer with Irish pop band B*Witched * Sinéad O'Connor, singer/songwriter * Sinéad Quinn, recording artist, realit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Language
Irish ( Standard Irish: ), also known as Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language family, which is a part of the Indo-European language family. Irish is indigenous to the island of Ireland and was the population's first language until the 19th century, when English gradually became dominant, particularly in the last decades of the century. Irish is still spoken as a first language in a small number of areas of certain counties such as Cork, Donegal, Galway, and Kerry, as well as smaller areas of counties Mayo, Meath, and Waterford. It is also spoken by a larger group of habitual but non-traditional speakers, mostly in urban areas where the majority are second-language speakers. Daily users in Ireland outside the education system number around 73,000 (1.5%), and the total number of persons (aged 3 and over) who claimed they could speak Irish in April 2016 was 1,761,420, representing 39.8% of respondents. For most of recorded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinéad Mulvey
Sinéad Mulvey (born 22 January 1988) is an Irish professional singer & air hostess who, alongside Black Daisy, represented her country at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 with the pop-rock song "Et Cetera". The song was performed in the second semi-final but missed out on qualification to the grand final. Mulvey appeared on '' You're a Star'' prior to Eurovision 2009, but missed out on the final. Biography Early life Sinéad started singing at the age of thirteen, as she was picked as the star role in the musical ''Cinderella''. In 2005 she competed in RTÉ's talent show '' You're a Star''.myspace.com/sineadmulvey Sinéad's Biography on myspace She works as an air hostess with Aer Lingus. Eurovision 2009 The deadline for submissions for the Irish selection process for the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 was 2 February 2009, with RTÉ inviting entries from as early as 20 December 2008. On 20 February 2009, Sinéad, alongside rock band Black Daisy, won the Irish pre-selecti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinéad Gleeson
Sinéad Gleeson is an Irish writer, editor and freelance broadcaster. She has won the Irish Book Award. Career Having edited the work of others, in 2016's ''The Long Gaze Back'' and 2017's ''The Glass Shore'', she released her first book ''Constellations'', a collection of personal essays, in 2019. Some of the essays in this work document Gleeson's struggle through illness, she is a survivor of Acute promyelocytic leukemia and has had a hip replacement. Gleeson has been a book and music reviewer for The Irish Times' ''The Ticket'' arts supplement and presents '' The Book Show'' on RTÉ Radio 1. She has been a judge for the Choice Music Prize. She is a writer in residence at University College Dublin. Works :As editor *''Silver Threads of Hope'', New Island Books, 2012 , in aid of Console *''The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers'', New Island Books, 2016 ** winner 2015 Best Irish Published Book of the Year Irish Book Awards ** 2018 Dublin City Public Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinead Farrington
Sinéad Farrington is a British particle physicist who works on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Farrington is interested in B physics, Higgs physics, tau physics, and long-lived particles. She is a Professor of Physics at the University of Edinburgh. In December 2020 Farrington was named the physical sciences and engineering laureate for the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the United Kingdom 2021. Early life and education Farrington was born in Torphins, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, to John Farrington, a Professor of Geography at the University of Aberdeen, and Bernadette, a primary school teacher. She has one younger brother Conor. She attended St Margaret's School for Girls in Aberdeen before studying physics at the University of Edinburgh. She remained in Scotland for her doctoral research, moving to the University of Glasgow. Her research was on a measurement of the lifetime of the strange B meson as part of the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinéad De Valera
Sinéad de Valera (; 3 June 1878 – 7 January 1975) was an Irish author of a number of children's books in both Irish and English. She was married to Taoiseach and third president of Ireland, Éamon de Valera. Background She was born Jane O'Flanagan in Balbriggan. Her father, Laurence, was a carpenter and was a native of Kildare who moved to Balbriggan Balbriggan (; , IPA: bˠalʲəˈbʲɾʲɪɟiːnʲ is a coastal town in Fingal, in the northern part of County Dublin, Ireland, approximately 34 km from Dublin City. The 2016 census population was 21,722 for Balbriggan and its environs. ... and married a local girl, Margaret Byrne. The couple emigrated to New York City, where their daughter Mary was born in 1871. The family returned to Balbriggan in 1873, and Sinéad was born there in 1878. She trained as a teacher and worked first in Edenderry, before taking up a post at a national school in Dorset Street, Dublin in around 1901. The 1901 census records her as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinéad Burke
Sinéad Burke (born 1990) is an Irish writer, academic and disability activist, popular for her TED talk 'Why design should include everyone'. She is the Director of consulting organisatio'Tilting the Lens' working to raise the baseline standards in accessibility, to design an equitable and accessible world. Since 2019, she has been a member of the Irish Council of State. Sinéad released her first book ‘Break the Mould’ in October 2020. It was awarded the Specsavers Children’s Book of the Year award at the An Post Irish Book Awards. Sinéad appeared on the cover of the 'Forces for Change' issue of British Vogue, guest-edited by the Duchess of Sussex. She also appeared on the cover of ''The Business of Fashion'' in May 2018 alongside Kim Kardashian with an interview as part of 'The Age of Influence' series. Education Burke trained as a primary school teacher, graduating from Marino Institute of Education at the top of her class and winning the Vere Foster medal and hold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinéad Noonan
Sinéad Noonan (born 1987) is an Irish former model and actress who won Miss Ireland 2008.Miss Ireland 2008 Belfasttelegraph.co.uk (23 June 2008). Retrieved on 2016-02-08. Herald.ie (9 July 2008). Retrieved on 2016-02-08. Noonan was born in to Peter and Stephanie Noonan, and grew up in , [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinéad Moynihan
Sinéad Bernadette Moynihan (born March 1982 in Salford, Greater Manchester) is an English model and actress, best known for her roles as Ashley Webb in '' Drop Dead Gorgeous'', Beth Clement in ''Hollyoaks'', and Abby Jones in ''How Not to Live Your Life''. Personal life The eldest of three girls, Sinead's sisters are Lara and Hayley Moynihan. She is the mother of two boys, Dylan and Jacob . She has been close friends with Linzey Cocker since they played the Webb sisters in BBC Three's comedy-drama '' Drop Dead Gorgeous'' in 2006. Career Moynihan began modelling at age 16. She trained at Manchester School of Acting. In 2006 at the age of 24 she landed the role of teenage model Ashley Webb in the BBC Three drama '' Drop Dead Gorgeous'', with Linzey Cocker who played her fraternal twin Jade Webb. In October 2007 she joined the Channel 4 show ''Hollyoaks'', playing the character Beth Clement until April 2008. She also starred in the BBC Three sitcom ''How Not to Live Your Life''s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinead Matthews
Sinead Matthews (born ) is an English actress whose credits include film, television and stage. Her notable TV roles include Marcia Williams in '' The Crown''. She was born in Coventry, England, and attended Cardinal Wiseman Catholic School in that city. She studied A-level Drama at Stratford-upon-Avon College between 1996 and 1998. She graduated from RADA in 2003. Career She made her television debut in the 2004 costume drama ''He Knew He Was Right''. In 2009 she starred in ''Our Class'', a new play by Tadeusz Slobodzianek at the NT and in Penelope Skinner's 2010 play ''Eigengrau'' at the Bush Theatre. On 21 August 2016, Matthews played Hermia/Fairy/Mistress Quince in ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', composed by Felix Mendelssohn, at The Proms. Filmography Film Television Radio * ''I Love Stephen Fry'' (2010) – Chloe * ''Diary of a Nobody ''The Diary of a Nobody'' is an English comic novel written by the brothers George and Weedon Grossmith, with illustration ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinéad Cusack
Sinéad Moira Cusack ( ) is an Irish actress. Her first acting roles were at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, before moving to London in 1969 to join the Royal Shakespeare Company. She has won the Critics' Circle and ''Evening Standard'' Awards for her performance in Sebastian Barry's ''Our Lady of Sligo''. Cusack has received two Tony Award nominations: once for Best Leading Actress in ''Much Ado About Nothing'' (1985), and again for Best Featured Actress in ''Rock 'n' Roll'' (2008). She has also received five Olivier Award nominations for ''As You Like'' (1981), ''The Maid's Tragedy'' (also 1981), ''The Taming of the Shrew'' (1983), ''Our Lady of Sligo'' (1998) and ''Rock 'n' Roll'' (2007). In 2020, she was listed at number 25 on ''The Irish Times'' list of Ireland's greatest film actors. Early life Cusack was born Jane Moira Cusack in Dalkey, County Dublin, the daughter of actress Maureen Cusack (born Mary Margaret Kiely) and actor Cyril Cusack. She is the sister of actresse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
